Beyond the sharp humor, a variety of identities are spoken to in Trans/Love, including those that frequently go unacknowledged. Read More
Collected from across a continua of class, age, race, gender, sex, and geography, these academics and activists, professionals and students--for whom the personal is political and vice versa--raise their voices in complicated and varied attempts to problematize and deconstruct the assorted issues related to homophobia (externalized and internalized). Read More
For our first Poetry Spotlight of 2012, three poems by Ely Shipley.
Shipley's first book, Boy with Flowers, won the 2007 Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, the 2009 Thom Gunn Award, and was a Lambda Literary finalist. His poems and lyric essays appear in Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Phoebe, Greensboro Review, Barrow Street, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Read More
This week author S. Bear Bergman rocked the Internet with the launch of a kickstarter campaign for Flamingo Rampant!, a new press focused on the creation of gender independent children's books.
Lambda sat down with Bear to talk about the books, the decision to create an independence press, and what the money which continues to flow in above the initial ask will allow them to create.
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In September 2011, Duke University published Jack Halberstam's most recent book, The Queer Art of Failure, a fascinating examination of how “we conceive of the idea of failure in our society, not so that we may correct ourselves, but so that we may see how our various ‘failures’ may actually produce a preferable alternative to conformist lifestyles and the status quo.”
Sinclair Sexsmith sat down with Halberstam to talk pronouns, Occupy Wall Street, queer parenting, gay marriage, academics, butch identity, and the queer art of failure. Read More
Don’t be misled by the bikini-clad model on the cover of Beauty Queens (Scholastic Press); this is decidedly not a...
The Brown Boi Project in Oakland, CA just finished up it’s third annual leadership retreat. A “community of masculine of...
Well, debauched and smutty readers, it’s been a slow summer for lesbian erotica. You probably noticed, because I’m sure you’ve...
Described in the New Yorker as “the greatest cabaret artist of v’s generation” NYC’s own Mx. Justin Vivian Bond is...
Books like this aren’t supposed to exist anymore. Didn’t I just read an article on the front page of the...
